For more than 20 years, Judith Sheindlin has dominated daytime ratings—by making justice in a complicated world look easy.

Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.

Horowitz went from the New Left to the far right. Now neither side wants him.

“The palace doors flew open. It was him. It was Rick Owens, the American-born designer known to his fans as the Lord of Darkness.”

Audrey Elrod thought she had found the man of her dreams. Today she is in a West Virginia prison. She’s broke. And the court has ordered her to pay more than $400,000 to victims of the same man who conned her.

Maine adopted Kenyan runner Moninda Marube as a symbol of human trafficking’s invisible casualties. But a close look at his case raises hard questions — and illustrates the challenge of investigating and prosecuting trafficking crimes.

Inside the Cleveland Indians clubhouse during their 22 game win streak.

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

“There is only one given: On the afternoon of August 16, a 22-year-old from Australia named Christopher Lane, who had come to America to go to college and play baseball, went out running and, without warning or knowing why, was shot to death in Duncan.”

Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.

Machine guns, cannons and drones in the Arizona desert.

A Jamaican cricket legend bowls in Brooklyn.

How lies become truth in online America.

An attempt at writing about the football coach.

The author and his daughter make a pilgrimage to witness greatness.

Dr. Drew has turned addiction television into a mini-empire, offering treatment and cameras to celebrities who have fallen far enough to take the bait.  His motivations, he insists, are pure:

Whether the doctor purposefully cultivates his celebrity stature for noble means or wittingly invites it because he himself likes being in the spotlight, he is operating on the assumption that his empathetic brand of TV will breed empathy instead of the more likely outcome, that it will just breed more TV.

A profile of a promising young runner.

A profile of Ernie Adams, Bill Belichick’s mysterious right hand man.

A story of literary ambition, fabulous parties and a hidden past.

A dispatch from the Central African Republic.

An abridged history of violence in "America's first suburb."

Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans.

Inside Alden Global Capital.

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.